[adamhartenz]

Local models are fine for the way we have been using AI, like as a chatbot, or a fancy autocomplete. But everyone is craming AI into everything. Windows will be an agentic OS whether we like it or not. There will be no using your own local model for that use case. It is looking like everything is moving that way.

[waffletower]

Hmmm, maybe use a different OS? I would never dream of using Windows to get any type of work done myself and there are many others like me. There certainly are choices. If you prefer to stay, MCP services can be configured to use local models, and people are doing so on Windows as well (and definitely with MacOS and Linux). From an OS instrumentation perspective, I think MacOS is probably the most mature -- Apple has acknowledged MCP and intends a hybrid approach defaulting to their own in house, on device, models, but by embracing MCP appears to be allowing local model access.